Are you real? The point is not to win elections, but to change politics. What is the point of Tories or Labour winning when there's not a dime's worth of difference between them? UKIP scared the living hell out of Dodgy Dave, enough to promise the Brexit referendum.
Those votes were ironically some of the few that were not thrown away.
It was both. I agree that all polling pointed to a comfortable remain victory, but they still wouldn't have risked a referendum if they weren't concerned about hemorrhaging votes to UKIP.
You're forgetting the part where UKIP forced the conservatives to adopt their main position.
The whole reason the Brexit vote took place was because UKIP were starting to get more votes than the conservatives in labour areas, and David Cameron had the bright idea that if he let the country vote on leaving, he could shut them up.
"Conservative"
It's like they learned nothing from UKIP.
UKIP were slandered as a Naxi party by all the media in the country. Same will happen with any nw party on the right of Labour.
Until the media is sorted out we can never break the two party system.
Are you real? The point is not to win elections, but to change politics. What is the point of Tories or Labour winning when there's not a dime's worth of difference between them? UKIP scared the living hell out of Dodgy Dave, enough to promise the Brexit referendum.
Those votes were ironically some of the few that were not thrown away.
It was both. I agree that all polling pointed to a comfortable remain victory, but they still wouldn't have risked a referendum if they weren't concerned about hemorrhaging votes to UKIP.
You're forgetting the part where UKIP forced the conservatives to adopt their main position.
The whole reason the Brexit vote took place was because UKIP were starting to get more votes than the conservatives in labour areas, and David Cameron had the bright idea that if he let the country vote on leaving, he could shut them up.
He just never expected the vote to win.